Random Star Trek discussion

Nemesis got me thinking; why isn't using telepaths to detect cloaked ships a regular thing? Even if they can't get a perfect firing solution, it'd still be nice to know when to increase scanning.

I assume the distance between ships is too great.

One theory: Troi is just really good at reading people's expressions, and her empathic senses are actually telling her fuck-all.

I'm sensing great jealousy and hatred coming from tafkats, Captain. We should fire immediately.

Troi may need visual contact for a strong fix - even Tam Elbrun didn't know the Romulans' plans until they decloaked so possibly telepaths need to know there IS a ship first? Simply opening yourself up for "any minds in the area" is going to swamp you with the thoughts of your own crew, as when Troi got jumpy because the E-D crew was on edge when the ship was falling apart above Iconia - later, she was able to sense Taris' frustration at her own ship's malfunctions but had the viewscreen link to home in on.

I mean, unfrozen Wall Street guy was just as good as reading the Romulans over the viewscreen as Troi was, if not bettter...

The comic book reboot of Beast Wars started a few months ago. They're doing some interesting stuff, adding a female to each starting lineup in the form of bat named Nyx and a turtle named Skold. In a recent issue, Dinobot explained the Predacon philosophy and way of life in a way I wish they'd done with the Klingons or even the Ferengi.

I can't figure out how to directly link to the image, but it's on the last slide if you're interested.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CSFZp1UFleH/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Voyager's "Meld" is on right now on H&I.

The coil spanner that Suder brained the dude with is the exact same prop as the Antican lightsaber!
Except the top part where the saber came out has been repainted with a metallic puce (purplish pink) instead of the red from "Lonely Among Us".

Never would have noticed if the episodes hadn't been so close together!

"Dreadnaught" is on Voyager right now on H&I.

Getting Dreadnaught to believe it's in the delta quadrant, and that B'elanna isn't being controlled by Cardassians is like reasoning with a fucking Qanon-er.
Qanon-ers are bad software in meat bodies, and Voyager predicted them.

I've worn so weary of the "Neelix is a pedo lol" argument for exactly this reason. She's very visibly an adultand it's only lobbed at Neelix because he's annoying. It's not funny for actual survivors to hear this and I'm glad Star Trek Shitposting final put an end to that there.

That said, slandering every ship one doesn't like as a "pedo ship" is something that's been happening across fandom for a while,far more than Trek fans ever did, so my patience on that is thin anyway.

Come to think of it, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if the episode writer got in a circular argument with Dayton at TrekBBS.

I've got a random Justice League question. I'm doing a rewatch, kind of and in the episode "War World" GL and Hawk Girl are flying through space looking for Superman and MM. It got me thinking, does Green Lantern's space flight break light speed, it would have to, right?

Can he get to any planet at all?
Cuz the nearest planet from us outside the solar system is 4 light years.
If he can get anywhere in less than 4 years, then yes, the ring has warp.

Again, the gender double standard.
Neelix is a pedo for being in a relationship with an alien with accelerated aging, but not Saavik for "helping with his pon farr" with clone-Spock who was accelerated aging?

I guess so. I never really thought about it before, I guess I just took it at face value. One thing that did bother is a scene where Luthor sends Grundy and a few others to plant a bomb in the Watchtower. They find the bomb and the give to Flash. They open one of the hatches with Flash standing right there, he’s not running and somehow he’s not sucked out into space.

Presumably he could use the ring to imagine a stable warp bubble or whatever the faster than light equivalent is in the DC universe.

What’s the age of consent on the Genesis planet?

Helping your friend and mentor blow a wad so they don't literally die of blue balls feels about as sexual as CPR is to kissing.

I do like me some Ponn Farr Kirk/Spock slash though

Hey, remember when the tolerant Federation ruined a guys Starfleet career for being 1/4 Romulan, whole the evil xenophobic Romulans let the daughter of a human Starfleet officer become one of their top people and the Klingons had no issue with the 1/4 human Alexander?

If you’re talking about “Drumhead” it was proven in that episode how wrong it was to treat the 1/4 Romulan guy the way they did and Picard basically put the trial to an end by making Satie look bad.

Yeah, but I'm pretty sure that guy didn't get his job back.

And that he felt the need to lie about it in the first place is telling.

You know what I just realized is extremely pedo-y while laying awake with Taco Bell indigestion? Anyone that tried to hook up with Seven of Nine in any Voyager episode, including and especially the Doctor.

Annika was assimilated during 2356 when she was six years old, and disconnected from the collective sometime during 2374 when she was 24. (Jeri Ryan was 29 when she first played the role.) In between assimilation and disconnection, she was a Borg drone. She had almost no conscious life experiences as an individual, she underwent no psychological or emotional development. She might have had the body of an adult, but aside from all the encyclopedic Borg knowledge she retained, she was basically a 6 year old girl that had just woken up from an 18 year coma.

There's even an episode later about a time she and some other drones were very briefly disconnected from the Collective. The other drones were eager to be free since they were assimilated as adults, but Seven lost her shit because "she knew nothing else but life as a drone" and forcibly re-assimilated them.

This is totally a trope, by the way.

https://www.filminquiry.com/born-sexy-yesterday/

I think you could make more of a case for the Doctor being the exemption, since as a sentient being he was technically only a few years old.

Maybe? His personality matrix was based on his creator Dr. Lewis Zimmerman, a middle aged creep that tried to steal Leeta away from Rom.

The lie could have been born of purely internalized self-hatred and paranoia as opposed to an accurate reflection of what Starfleet would do.

Also, the guy as far as we saw wasn't actually fired. It didn't look good for him, but Satie's court-martial of him switched gears to target Picard. I suppose we can read whatever ending for that guy, but I'm betting he gets a slap on the wrist for the lie, nothing more. After all, the first duty is to the truth.

True, but conversations with Zimmerman show the EMH shouldn't be programmed for romance/sex. Those were things he added himself.

You're forgetting the growth she experienced in Unimatrix Zero.
Those memories were temporarily lost, but she got them back.

Voyager’s Twisted (S2:E6) was on the other day and I couldn’t help but think that episode was another microcosm of the series. The concept is somewhat entertaining as the ship encounters some space warping inverted whatever and people get lost and wander aimlessly through ever changing corridors.

Just when you think ish is about to get real the anomaly communicates with drunk Janeway and all is well. Apparently the anomaly downloaded Voyager’s database (which we never hear about again) and it uploaded 20 million gigaquads of info to Voyager’s database (which we never hear about again).

Nah, that's why I said "conscious" life experiences.